Pseudo-martyr (Donne) 78
Ptolemy 33, 62, 302, 303
Puccini, Giacomo 232
Pugachev Revolt 46, 72
Pulci, Bernardo 233
Pulci, Luca 233
Pulci, Luigi 9, 232–233
Punishment without Revenge (Lope de Vega) 162
Puppet theater, Japanese. See Bunraku
Puritans 28–30, 69, 81–82, 178–180, 283, 305,
306
The Puritans (Miller, ed.) 180
Purity (Cleanness; Pearl poet) 218, 271
Pushkin, Alexander 160, 233
Pushkin, Sergei 233
Pushkin, V[v]asilii L`vovich 233–234
“Puss in Boots” (Perrault) 221
Q
El Q`Anil. See Komam Q`Anil, Epic of
Qianlung (Ch’ien-lung, Qian Long; emperor of
China) 41, 159
Quakers 75, 195, 307
Quang Trung Tu Menh Tap (Letters and commands
from the time of military service; Nguyen Trai)
204
Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns 2
Quartet (Krylov) 142
Quennell, Peter 228
Quetzalcoatl, myth of 181, 235
Quevedo, Francisco de 66, 105–106, 235–236,
285
Quiché Mayan literature 229–230
Quietism 92
Quintana, Ricardo 279
Quintilian 115
Quoc Am Thi Tap (Volume of poems in the
national tongue; Nguyen Trai) 204
Qu You (Ch’ü Yu) 136–137
R
Rabelais, François 115, 148, 237–239, 244, 280
Rabinal Achi 239
Rabutin, Celse Bénigne de, baron de Chantal 265
Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de. See Sévigné, Madame
de
Raccolta aragonese (Medici and Poliziano, eds.)
182
Racine, Jean 2, 64, 239–241, 289
friends and colleagues of 24–25, 190
influence of 174
literary criticism on 56, 63, 202, 241, 299
Radcliffe, Ann 247
Radewyn, Florentius 286
Radishchev, Aleksander Nikolayevich 242, 290
Ragionamenti (Aretino) 7
Raleigh, Sir Walter 30, 112
Rambler essays 28, 202
Rameau’s Nephew (Diderot). See The Neveu de
Rameau
Randolph, Peyton 198
Random Ventures in Idleness (Li Yu). See Xian-qing
ou-ji
The Rape of Tamar (Tirso de Molina) 287
The Rape of the Lock (Pope) 202, 215, 228
rationalism 242–243
Enlightenment and 85, 101, 160, 242–243,
249–250
reaction against 101
A Real Account of the Life of a Respectable Person
(Rej) 243
Real Commentaries (Garcilaso de la Vega) 101
realism 70, 175, 264, 292
Recinos, Adrian 230
“The Reeve’s Tale” (Chaucer) 91
Reflections of moral sentences and maxims (La
Rochefoucauld). See Réflexions ou sentences et
maxims morales
Reflections of the Causes of Heat and Cold
(Lomonosov) 160
Reflections on the Romans (Montesquieu) 194
“Reflections on Titles” (Paine) 213
Réflexions ou sentences et maxims morales
(Reflections of moral sentences and maxims; La
Rochefoucauld) 151
Reformation 47, 71, 88–89, 197, 244, 282
The Regrets (Bellay) 20
Regulations for the Confessors of Spaniards (Las
Casas). See Confesionario
The Rehabilitations of Horace (Lessing) 157
Reichlin 183
Rej, Mikkolaj 243
Relación (Relation; Prado) 230–231
Relation (Prado). See Relación
A Relation of the Mission of Paraguay (Muratori)
199
La Religieuse (Diderot) 77
The Religion of Christ (Lessing) 158
Rembrandt 301
Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul (Petrarch) 222
Renaissance 243–245
characteristics of 45, 56, 71, 244
Enlightenment and 244
figures in 3, 9, 57, 87, 119, 154–156, 168,
177–178, 182, 185–188, 223–224, 226,
233, 237–239, 244, 249
and humanism 22, 114–115, 211, 244
ideals in 45, 61, 101, 155, 244
literature in 6, 45, 66, 94, 217, 225–226,
227, 273, 274, 289, 293
women in 145
Renaissance men 45, 61, 155, 244
“The Renewal of the Covenant the Great Duty”
(Mather) 180
renga 313
The Repeated Admonition of an Upright Devoted
Son (Luo Guanzhong). See Chung-cheng hsiao-
tzu lien-huan chien
Representative Words (Gustafson) 212
The Republic (Plato) 6, 244, 293
Restoration drama 58–59, 219
The Retinue of Love (Orléans) 210
Retrato de golilla (Portrait of a Ruffled Collar;
Santa Cruz y Espejo) 259
Revelations of Divine Love (A Book of Showings;
Julian of Norwich) 56, 128–129
revenge tragedies 289
The Review (periodical) 69
Reynard the Fox 91
Rheticus, Georg Joachim 62
Rhetoric (Lomonosov) 160
Rhetorics (Cicero) 221
Rhode Island, founding of 306
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) 17
Rhymes (Boccaccio). See Rime
Rhymes (Petrarch). See Canzoniere
Richard II (king of England) 50, 97
Richard of St. Victor 56
Richardson, Samuel 245–246
influences of/on 31, 146, 157, 175, 207
literary criticism on 207, 245–246, 247
translations of 231
Richelieu, Cardinal Amand-Jean du Plessis 1–2,
63, 64
Ricordi (Guicciardini) 108
Riebeeck, Jan van 246–247
Rights of Man (Paine) 213
Rimas (Aregensola and Aregensola) 9
Rimas (Camões) 38
Rime (Rhymes; Boccaccio) 23
Rinaldo (Tasso) 282
The Rise of the Novel (Watt) 70, 246
“The Rising Glory of America” (Freneau) 97
Risorgimento 199
The Robbers (Schiller) 260
“Robene and Makyne” (Henryson) 263
Robert Guiscard (Kleist) 137
“Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale” 84
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 69
Rodderick and Alphonsus (Bredero) 31
La Rodoguna (Peralta) 220
romance 52, 97, 217, 247, 247–248, 270
Romance of the Late Tang and the Five Dynasties
(Luo Guanzhong) 165
The Romance of the Rose (Lorris and de Meun)
50, 224, 271
Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties (Luo
Guanzhong) 165
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo
Guanzhong). See San-gouzhi yan-yi
Romances de los señores de la Nueva España (The
Romances of the Sages of New Spain) 201, 202
Roman de Thebes 167
Roman de Troie (Benoit de Sainte-Maure) 107
La Romanina 185
romantic epic 247
romanticism
critics of 138
Enlightenment and 132
figures in 102, 113
German 101, 206–207, 261
impact of 247
influences on 84, 138
origins of 113, 250, 252
roots of 260
Rome, classical
farce in 92
humanism and 115
influence of 2, 88, 102–103, 160, 186, 223,
226, 248–249, 270, 297, 301. See also
classicism; neoclassicism
rediscovery of 87, 237, 244
works on 169, 261, 279
Rome sauvée (Voltaire) 298
ronin 52
Ronsard, Pierre de 20, 223, 225–226, 244,
248–249, 274
Rosales, Diego de 210, 249
Rosand, David 45–46
Rosenthal, Franz 118
Rose Theatre 176
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio 19
Rostand, Edmond 21
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 249–252
contemporaries of 28, 76, 251, 283
Encyclopedia and 76, 82–83
Enlightenment and 4, 85, 242
influences of/on 31, 114, 133, 137, 146,
194, 245, 251–252
literary criticism on 75–76, 77, 82, 207,
251–252
translations of 160
Rowlandson, Joseph 252–253
Rowlandson, Mary 87, 252–253
Rowson, Susanna 253–254
Roxana (Defoe) 69–70
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